janice1999

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by janice1999 1y ago
Culling staff and organisations in ways that lead to bottlenecks or institutional disorder is a classic suppression and censorship tactic. It's naive to think otherwise, especially given the current leadership.
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by janice1999 1y ago
"In recent weeks, powerful politicians, including senators Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio and House Representative Mike Gallagher, have reiterated calls for a ban on TikTok, citing the app’s alleged bias towards anti-Israel and anti-Jewis
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by janice1999 1y ago
Think-tank wants to enable companies get access to private medical and other personal data. "Solution" to privacy "problem" sounds like a blockchain pitch circa-2019. Wonderful.
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by janice1999 1y ago
>Not in EU. Please stop spreading disinformation. I live in the EU and my EU bank supports desktop browsers + Card reader matching everything the mobile app can do.
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by janice1999 1y ago
By comparison, Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyle) was executed for treason (the last person to in the UK to receive such a punishment). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce
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by janice1999 1y ago
Exactly this. The kernel seems like the least interesting part of an AR system. Also targeting x86, ARM and RISC-V for a new kernel is such a huge workload it makes no sense not to just re-use something already existing.
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by janice1999 1y ago
> If you think about it though, someone knowledgeable enough to write this paper is exactly the kind of person you'd want to serve as an expert witness. Maybe, but the same was also true of the now disgraced Andrew Wakefield, altho
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by janice1999 1y ago
The authors overt nationalistic tone is really at odds with reality. There are no "good guys" when it came to nuclear weapons testing. The UK nuclear weapons tests in Australia were also a disaster for locals and poisoned large ar
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by janice1999 1y ago
They can choose not to enforce it. The problem is that both Google and other phone manufacturers are making custom ROMS more difficult (restricting access to binaries needed to get the phone to work, not providing bootloader unlock etc). Th
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by janice1999 1y ago
Just like the Taliban.
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by janice1999 1y ago
Why? Panama was a dictatorship ruled by a drugs lord in the 1980s. It's now a democratic country with competitive elections and orderly rotations of power.
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by janice1999 1y ago
Petitioning EU lawmakers would be better. American control of European data is already a bit issue at the moment in the face of US threats over Digital taxes and Microsoft being used to punish ICJ members.
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by janice1999 1y ago
> You can publish any android app you want, that doesn't give you the right to anonymously deploy those apps on everyone's personal tracking devices (phones). This is about users freedom to install apps on the devices they own.
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by janice1999 1y ago
> This is McCarthyism. Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor after all.
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by janice1999 1y ago
For the unaware: "Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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by janice1999 1y ago
If only he could seek the financial wisdom of the former owner of his home and his long time neighbor, adviser to the rich and powerful, high school drop out Jeffrey Epstein.
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by janice1999 1y ago
I'm the same. No Google account since 2012. F-Droid is an amazing community effort and has enabled me to find so many great open source applications.
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by janice1999 1y ago
AOSP is being killed piece by piece - zero community engagements, infrequent dumps with no commit logs, moving everything into Google Play services and recently no more binaries for Pixel phones just to make third party ROM developers lives
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by janice1999 1y ago
> Imagine MS doing the same for Windows. They already have a version of that - it's called Windows S Mode (Windows Store apps only, no EXEs or scripts, Edge only for browsing). If they get away with it, they would make it the defaul
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by janice1999 1y ago
> Europe absolutely spent many years phasing out nuclear energy Germany is not Europe. Over 70% of electricity in France is nuclear and they have plans to build at least 6 EPR2 plants.
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by janice1999 1y ago
Absolutely, at least they had to honesty to include what she said - incitement to mass murder immigrants and politicians - while there were rioters actively attacking hotels and mosques and after 2 MPs were murdered in office. The rest of t
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by janice1999 1y ago
Humans have the capacity to learn from their own mistakes without redoing a lifetime of education.
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by janice1999 1y ago
Not surprising. This is one of the CEOs who wants "special economic zones", i.e. a place where they can be fedual lords.
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by janice1999 1y ago
What's telling is that, even if his story is remotely true, his target audience for this tale are people who won't blink at potentially destroying peoples lives just for corporate point scoring or, worse, terrorising surviving emp
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by janice1999 1y ago
The RFID vaccine conspiracy was inspired by another, very different technology Bill Gates helped fund - microneedle vaccines with quantum dot records. I guess RFID was easier for people to understand and it became the go-to conspiracy inste
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by janice1999 1y ago
Anyone else instantly turned away by the LLM emoji bullet points? This project could be the work of an enthusiastic developer with a deep understanding/love of the 80286 or LLM slop based on regurgitated code stolen from years of hard
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by janice1999 1y ago
Sounds crazy but car and truck tires have had RFID chips for years. I assume most people would be surprised by that. https://www.tirereview.com/michelin-connect-car-tires-rfid-2...
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by janice1999 1y ago
Related: Pentagon becomes largest stakeholder ($400 million) in rare earths mine in California's Mojave Desert. https://www.metaltechnews.com/story/2025/07/16/tech-metals/d...
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by janice1999 1y ago
Is there a viable non-Nvidia vendor for inference at scale? AMD? Or is in-house hardware like Google and Amazon?
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by janice1999 1y ago
I assume you're talking that's a quantised 20B model on a several thousand dollar Mac? That's really impressive and huge progress but is that indicative of companies serving thousands of users? They still have to buy Nvidia a

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